Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Chris Stefanich Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 29 Message-ID: <17399720.1498.1332535529332.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yncd8> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 148.61.156.60 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1332535645 15618 127.0.0.1 (23 Mar 2012 20:47:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:47:25 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=148.61.156.60; posting-account=QHSJPgoAAACfFjPDTqNg818xBC95OAEJ User-Agent: G2/1.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13137 On Monday, March 19, 2012 12:59:00 PM UTC-4, Daniel Pitts wrote: > I've been working on my AT-Robots program > , and I'm getting ready > to create a "Tournament Server" for it. Basically, what that means is a > webapp where someone can upload their robot definitions to compete > against the others that have already been uploaded. I think this is a > necessary next step in order to start building a community around my > project, but I don't really have excess capital to spend on an otherwise > free project. > > I do have my own personal "server", but it lives in my house and isn't > very "stable". I've also looked into nosupportlinuxhosting.com, and > while I can get Java to start up with a *lot* of finagling, it doesn't > seem likely to be useful to me as a host for this kind of work. > > Just thinking out loud here, maybe the free (for a year) Micro Instance > in EC2 is the way to go, but I don't know if that's "big" enough for a > Java web-app. Anyone have experience with that? > > Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated. I'm looking to spend < $5/mo > if possible. At this point traffic will be fairly minimal, and free is > best, but it has to work well enough when it is used. I'm not concerned > about scalability at first, since when I do need to scale, I'll probably > be able to monetize at least a little and use that to pay for a real host. > > Thanks everyone, > Daniel. Have you looked into Heroku?